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28 Cards in this Set
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very short novel
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novellette
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eight line poem, or the first 8 lines of a Petrarchan sonnet
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octave
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lyric verse usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject
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ode
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point of view in a work when the narrator is capable of knowing, seeing, and telling all
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omniscient point of view
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use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning
ex. hiss, buzz |
onomatopoeia
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stanza consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines rhyming abababcc
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ottava rima
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term made up of contradictory elements brought into juxtaposition to create a paradoxical effect
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oxymoron
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illustrative story teaching a lesson
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parable
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model, ideal, or standard
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paradigm
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statement that thought seemingly contradictory may actually be well founded or true
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paradox
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repetition of any grammatical structure
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parallelism
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a satirical imitation of a work for the purpose of ridiculing its style or subject
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parody
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poem treating of shepherds and rustic life
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pastoral
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phrase coined by Ruskin to denote the tendency to credit nature with the emotions of human beings
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pathetic fallacy
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the quality in art that stimulates tenderness, pity, or sorrow
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pathos
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an essay written for publication in a periodical
popular through most of the 18th century |
periodical essay
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sentence not grammatically complete before its end
opposite of loose sentence |
periodic sentence
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reversal of fortune for a protagonist
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peripety
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a mask; used to refer to a "second self" created by an author
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persona
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animals or objects are given human characteristics
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personification
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fourteen line poem organized in two segments; octave and sestet
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Petrarchan sonnet
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chronicle presenting a story of a rascal of low degree engaged in meniel tasks and making his living more through his wits than his industry
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picaresque novel
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word applied to certain kinds of writing by analogy to a type of painting that grew out of the effort to find a middle ground between the sublime and the beautiful
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picturesque
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an element of literary judgment
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plausibility
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use of superfluous syllables or words; sometimes brought about by the needless repitition of unnecessary words
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pleonasm
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ode--signifies the first stanza and every third stanza; movement of the chorus up one side
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strophe
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ode--identical in meter with the strophe; while singing the blank the chorus retraced the steps they took during the strophe exactly
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antistrophe
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ode--where the strophe and antistrophe signal the rise and fall of emotional power
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epode
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